Experts Database

Jenna Blower is a Ph.D. candidate at York University in the Department of Social Anthropology. Jenna has an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from the Toronto Metropolitan University. Jenna currently works as a Migration Research Officer for the Migration Research Unit at the International Organization for Migration supporting the Word Migration Report series.

I am a researcher with extensive experience in the field of Political Science and MENA region at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). I hold a BA in Political Science and International Relations (University of Pavia), and a MA in Modern Middle East Studies (Leiden University). My research investigates the coexistence of migration and protest within the same space and time, with particular attention to the individual-level choice between these two types of behavior. I examine reasons, opportunities for mobilization of young Moroccans living in Rabat, Tangier and Nador. I am interested in the impact that local-context factors, can have on the decision to mobilize towards protest and/or migration, or none of them.

Sanja Bökle is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the research project “Civil Society Organizations and the Challenges of Migration: Agents of Change (ZOMiDi)”. Sanja studied international development studies at the University of Vienna and the Universidad de la República Uruguay, and worked as a Student Assistant at the Department for Development Cooperation and Development Politics at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Drawing from post-colonial, queer and feminist theories, Sanja’s master thesis asked how gender, sexuality, desire, and race are normed, negotiated, limited, and included in international voluntary work, and was published in the Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag and Nomos-Verlag. Sanja worked for many years as a social justice and diversity trainer, and founded an NGO for political education.

Susanne Boersma is a PhD fellow in the POEM EU H2020 research project, for which she is based at Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SPK) and the University of Hamburg. She looks at the role of museums in the conversation about migration and their efforts to let ‘refugees speak from themselves’. Building on her background in cultural studies, languages and arts, she has taken an interest in the potential role of cultural institutions in narrative and integration processes in Europe.

Colleen Boland is postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she works on the EU Horizon2020 funded ITFLOWS project investigating management of migration flows to the EU and co-coordinates the project’s Gender Committee. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research interests relate to the intersection of gender and diversity, asylum rights and management, and the construction of citizenship and belonging with reference to minority populations in European societies. She is currently a 2021-2022 re:constitution Fellow, a Stiftung Mercator funded Forum Transregionale Studien and Democracy Reporting International program.